(Ecns.cn)--"It dies just before it begins, and lives just after it ends. We have incorporated our perfect brackets within an infinite spiral, and use the brackets to repeatedly cut into the spiral's coil in order to configure their self-rotation and self-recovery," explained artist Wu Shanzhuan about the creative concepts behind his recent exhibition at the 798 Art Zone in Beijing, which will run from October 26 to Januaryf next year.
On the white walls of the Long March Space, a visual arts center, blue spirals revolve infinitely as being cut off by reverse curves, confusing most visitors.
The exhibition is themed on a strange symbol, consisting of parallel brackets and a spiral, and other patterns derived from it. It was named the "perfect brackets" by Wu and his wife Inga Svala Thorsdottir, an Icelandic artist and co-organizer of the event.
To make it more imaginative, the couple entitled the show Kuo Xuan, but refused to give each pinyin word in the title a Chinese character.
After living and working abroad for 20 years, Wu had seemingly been "forgotten" by his Chinese fellows, which makes his already complicated and abstract work harder to understand. Even Wu himself was described as "a maze" by another artist.
Wu is capable of unpredictable behavior, such as urinating on a sculpture called "Fountain," the most famous work by Marcel Duchamp. He and his wife also stripped naked at a supermarket in Germany and took pictures of themselves standing in front of fruit with apples in their hands, posed like Adam and Eve.
Just a couple of months ago, Wu shaved off his long beard and hair, which he had been wearing for about two decades.
